it is now thought a terror attack in the russian city of volgograd could have been carried out by a man fifteen were killed by a suicide bomber targeting the city's main railway station. and the week's top news in turkey riot police crackdown on protesters demanding the government step down after a high ranking corruption scandal. thirty looks at events that shaped the world in two thousand and thirteen a we review the revelations by former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden which exposed america's mass surveillance. the old media organizations are simply a branch of the establishment. we also talk to we could leaks founder julian assange about the state of journalism today and his new media standard road movie where he and others offer up secret documents to various media outlets.

and broadcasting a lot of direct from our studios in moscow this is our team sean thomas let's get right to our top story in investigators say they are looking at a number of possibilities of who carried out a suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd that killed fifteen people ninety's correspondent margaret how will be joining us later with more information we'll bring you her report a little bit later but anti-war activist don de bar now he believes that the international community should have bring to account the state actors that enable such terrorist attacks. people on the ground who did this perhaps may be you know anonymous players just individuals who are incited one way or another but you do

not move weaponized explosives into a major city without the aid of very powerful forces state actors usually and so i think that the focus should be for the entire international community to take a look already at who are the state actors that are enabling these things saudi arabia comes to mind for example and to make them the international pariah is that they should be and to impose criminal sanctions on those responsible within those governments now fifteen people are dead in volgograd after the suicide attack as promised here's marty's market health. well i'm standing here in volgograd literally a short path down from the volgograd regional train depot just behind me where a bomb went off sunday december twenty ninth killing a fifteen people so far and a sixteen person believed to be the suicide bomber over thirty five people and you

to change now that it was originally reported that it was a female suicide bomber now believed to be a male by law enforcement officials possibly a male bomber at this point it's inconclusive they originally believe the suspect to be a female twenty six year old from the republic of dagestan however finding a male finger in the clip nade the suspect thought to be a male by law enforcement officials the role of the female is the use of a bomb just twenty minutes past noon ripping through the corridor of the volgograd train station it was detonated around the security checkpoint this instantly killing the police officer trying to stop the bomber now the police have since found that another device was in fact a present but did not detonate so whomever intended this and planted the bomb and carried out. clearly intended massive harm now the emergency ministry sent

a fully equipped plane from moscow to volgograd with medical personnel including a trauma surgeon trauma surgeons on board to collect those seriously injured those that were taken to the hospital they're now coming to grips with the horrifying consequences that resulted from today's blast take a listen she's not on the list my daughter i'm looking for my daughter she was up a train station. my son father and niece were inside the train station when the last one of their own in intensive care and now they're badly injured they were headed for a train to moscow but never made it. the explosive originally reported that at its core it was covered with metal fragment. that make the bombs impact more deadly one nine year old girl in critical condition her mother was killed in sunday's blast also two young boys believed to be cousins but also died from the bombing of the

train station one of their fathers is alive in critical condition at a hospital now taking a look back on the events of sunday in volgograd here's our. the bomb went off just before one pm train station nation ripped through an area around a security checkpoint as a suspect in passengers waited for their luggage to be inspected. before i bend down to collect my documents when i saw a flash of light and there was a blast i was thrown back by the explosion when i came to my senses a man was carrying me only outside was i able to get a breath of air and saw the to understand what was happening. and i was inside in the waiting i heard an explosion i didn't realized what had happened and i saw the giant engines do was completely ruined and people were coming out with their hair and bodies were burned among those to die at the scene was a police officer who was reportedly trying to stop one of the suspected terrorists

from carrying out her murderous mission. to go i was with a child not far from where the blast happened i saw a blast shot its last flight i pushed the child to floor and covered him with my body officials say the bomb was equivalent to policed ten kilos of t.n.t. an estimate supported by the scene of devastation only the security checkpoints prevented this from the much worse and unexploded grenade was founded the scene of the bluster and now investigators are looking at whether second bomber was involved this is the second time in just a few months that the southern russian city has fallen victim to terrorists. in october is still wrong in the memories of people back then it was a female suicide bomber she killed six and injured over thirty others the first three days of january had been declared days of mourning in both the great region those days are the very heart of russia's new year holiday celebrations but this

year authorities have decided perhaps understandably to get to stevie's should be consoled even though most of. them there has been a lot of reaction to the events in volgograd on social media and on twitter eyewitnesses have been posting very reports from the scene let's take a look here are some of them and now in one a photographer who lives nearby tweeted that the blast was so powerful that the huge doors at the railway station were completely blown out and other witness reports that people immediately arrived at the scene to help victims there while the deputy head of the city tweeted that all of volgograd top officials are at the site of the incident now we spoke to senior lecturer at moscow state university mark sloboda he explained why he believes the city came under attack. well look good is the principal focus simply because it's an easy and close target to the south of the caucasus. just yesterday there the russian security

services reported that a principal aide to the self-styled leader of the caucasus doku umarov was killed in dog astonish by security forces i think we can look at this attack today as for more than likely a very rapid reaction presidential attack for the killing of this eight local arms . of course our team is on c.n.n. we will be closely following the developments and bring you all of the latest details as we get them in you can also log on to our team dot com for a minute by minute timeline of the events in volgograd. and on to the week's top stories with our weekly program we start in turkey which has seen a wave of massive anti-government protests reminiscent of the last summer's demonstrations this time public anger was sparked by a corruption scandal and it's all more than twenty officials and a businessman arrested and led to

a major cabinet reshuffle the situation escalated on friday when police launched a violent to crackdown on protesters calling on the government to step down or tease her for a three ports. it's not some uncommon sight so they stumble streets in a year that's been marked by widespread protests but this time the rallies taking place in the wake of a corruption crackdown that rocked the government the threats to prime minister comes not just from the streets but from within his own party the turnout for the demonstration was significantly smaller than the seen the summer in the last three clashes broke out between police and protesters but added i've been in power for such a long time to maintain control a lot of people said that a lot of good things stirred the country right now the. government actually it has become very very. strong. in this.

region that is not the first. big enough to stop this between publicly out of the protests the prime minister remains defiant and continue to blame the corruption probe well of foreign conspiracy and a second wave of detentions may still be possible to the time being it's deadlocked for mainz with at least a prosecutor publicly accused the law enforcement being in the government's pocket earth teasing a court decision to carry out war raids government officials and their families as that political drama continues to unfold arguably the biggest test now facing the embattled prime minister still lies ahead of him a batch. test for mr mammograms. strewn across. van we can see.

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welcome back you are watching at the weekly here on our t.v. glad to have you with us now two throws and thirteen it's almost in the books and we are looking back at the most important stories of the year. n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden who became one of the world's biggest names in this year has u.s. security leaks revealed just how much everyone is being spied on america says the fugitive former contractor is a traitor and wants to try him for espionage but as artie's got a church account comments other whistleblowers have already paid the price for lifting the veil of secrecy. edward snowden says george orwell's fictitious big brother is no match for the u.s. national security agency the times of collection the book microphones and video cameras t.v.'s that watches are nothing compared to what we have today snowden

revealed that a secret court rubber stamps warrants for telecommunication companies to hand out the data of millions of their customers he also leave to the programs that the government uses to track virtually anything anybody does on the internet and also store that information. and he showed how the u.s. government had lie about mass surveillance does the n.s.a. collect any type of data all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir while most americans think to edward snowden the u.s. government tectum as a spy and a traitor the united states government classified its evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights what we're doing is advocating to tell what tarion procedures which is gathering information about all the individuals in the world. the former intelligence contractor is now in exile

knowing for certain that he'd go to jail should he return to the u.s. like bradley and now chelsea manning who was sentenced to thirty five years in jail this august so we could leaks manning released many thousands of diplomatic cables and video proof of u.s. involvement in war crimes another man who found himself in jail this year was john key the first u.s. official to confirm the government's use of waterboarding to interrogate suspects i caught up with him shortly before he went to serve his two and a half year sentence i have never believed that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is about torture in the hunt for whistleblowers journalists have been targeted as well u.s. authorities secretly tapped the phones of dozens of associated press journalists the partner of glenn greenwald who broke the story about n.s.a. surveillance was detained in london while carrying materials from edward snowden to

british authorities so closely cooperate with washington now accuse him of quote terrorism. aaron swartz was neither a whistleblower in the war a journalist whether he was a champion of the free internet fighting against censorship ills and advocating the online when the use of as much information as possible on the government on january eleventh the twenty six year old committed suicide. prosecutors wanted to put him in jail for up to thirty five years for downloading academic articles from a subscription based research website at his university with the intent to make them available to the public but this was somebody who was pushed to the edge by what i think of as a kind of bullying by our government a government treated him as if he were nine eleven terrorists edward snowden's revelations showed with the kind of surveillance that governments are doing i'm a

sees out the window but this year will also learn what happens to those who fully embrace this new age of openness and accessibility of information it showed that while governments in the u.s. government first and foremost won their populations to be open and transparent they themselves become increasingly secretive in washington i'm going to check on our team. now snowden's leaks have been released constantly since the june let's take a look at the most important ones now the world learned that the national security agency the n.s.a. is collecting millions of u.s. phone records daily it seems that that data from some of the world's biggest internet companies is not out of the n.s.a.'s reach either british and it germinal excuse me british and german intelligence apparently helped of the u.s. gather all of this data and even though the u.s. is allies with states it did not stop america from wiretapping european leaders latin american governments and businesses are also under the watchful eye of the n.s.a. u.s. intelligence actually seems to have most of the globe covered snowden revealed that

they tap the data straight from the fiber of the cables which carry most of the world's online traffic former cia officer ray mcgovern thinks those violating privacy should face justice not the leakers. i am delighted to hear that ed snowden on his desk in honolulu had a copy of the constitution of the united states all dog eared because he used it to argue with his in his calm patriots there it is say as to whether what they were doing was legal whether it was constitutional but the question should be why those who are aided and abetted this way they should be brought to trial for these of gross violations of their solemn oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states now what would media outlets do if they were given some secret documents the media stunt road movie answers that question we will be highlighting it here on r t but

a team of wiki leaks journalists traveled across central asia and later to britain and then the u.s. offering up a classified cables to the press the film's creator julian assange and one of his companions spoke to our teas and he's an hour earlier. what makes this documentary so interesting is that we have different media organizations in different countries but all starting out of the same place. the journalists come to them offer them the same type of material the us government diplomatic cables and then we see what the response is publish not publish censor some things document what they're thinking as they're doing in most cases. there are very significant as can be constraints in fact most cases resulted in publications by the organizations concerned little of it was published some material. do you feel like the mission you documented in

media stan was a success there were a lot of reactions i remember in tajikistan with people saying you're not going to make a difference nothing will really change if we speak about making a difference or if the mission in itself was a success. obviously when the regards to actually getting the material published in the various medias it's difficult to call your great success because there were actually quite well not that many newspapers neither in central asia or for that matter here in the united states that you actually declared you interested in publishing the full material that they got access to so in that respect you know it wasn't a success but from a broader respect of course we can see that the leaks releases have made a large impact they can. change the way that we interact with with media since then and i think that if we just look at the. whole affair which is has been going on for the last year or so that is

a consequence of that we can fix releases and that is the fact that it's not what. it is no direct censorship which is feasible by particularly nations with replication that happened in different countries in different places where it is possible for them to become in afghanistan obviously the risks are a whole different kind of risk there are you going to continue your work to try to keep revealing the truth. i think this is our responsibility as journalists to reveal what's happening behind the scenes within the government and the regional level as well as international level so i have been working as a journalist since two thousand and six in afghanistan and the risks to be a journalist in afghanistan is so high it sense too since early since early two thousand and thirteen there have been sixty cases against. journalists violation

of violence and many other cases against journalists in afghanistan so that there are there is a high risk to be a journalist in afghanistan but this is our responsibility not to give up and continue our work as a journalist edward snowden should use the media and not wiki leaks to channel his revelations don't you think that's a good sign but he was able to do it through the media. well i think it's quite sad actually it would snowden didn't go to infect the media he went to someone that's closely associated with us and specific journalist glenn greenwald and another specific journalist laura portress. the most prominently a couple journalists to which she but it has gone clean green worlds for his part was then working with the guardian has lists the guardian as a result. of the censorship by the guardian but all of that material to date less than zero point zero five percent of the snowden i think documents have been

published. the majority of the media are still reluctant to challenge the government like you said and speaking of glenn greenwald recently he reprimanded journalists across the globe for not standing up to the government lets out so have a listen to what going greenwald had to say at a recent conference in hamburg what is that we were targeting in the behavior of the media over the past six months is just revelations have emerged almost entirely without them and despite the roll out of the us media and their british counterparts is to be voices for those with the greatest power and to protect their interests and serve that your highness i want to ask you is it as bad as greenwald is saying generally speaking if you just understand that the powerful media institutions are parts part of power rather than being being so to speak mediators of information you just understand the very idea that. you will start

looking at media consumption of news or information in a different in a different respect so yes of course there is that bad. and if we look at an institution such as the washington post which was one of the first institutions that had access to snowden's documents they decided not to publish anything. i mean practically didn't publish anything and what we can understand from that is that there is a direct relationship between between the different power institutions in our societies and media is most definitely one of the most important power institutions that we have in our society very well. it's not take a look at some other stories making headlines around the globe this hour michael schumacher seven time formula one world champion is in a coma after a skiing accident in france schoomaker was skiing with his fourteen year old son in an off piste area between two marked runs after the incident he was airlifted out

by helicopter to the grenoble university hospital center and the director of it general care described his condition as serious. this sort of accident which took place at the marable resort in france just a schumacher was transported to the grenoble university hospital center where he arrived at the clinic in a coma and underwent immediate surgery for a serious head trauma. and violence continues to rage across south sudan government troops clash with rebels from the so-called white army near the city of bor the military reportedly used helicopter gunships against the rebels fighting erupted it despite the government's offer of a truce to end the conflict in the country well rich south sudan has been in turmoil since two thousand and eleven when it gained independence in this month alone at least one thousand people have died in fighting in south sudan. coming up after the break we look at how getting classified documents into the public domain

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